ONE SHOT: Tulsa SWAT Sniper Saves Toddler In Hostage Standoff

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Posted October 18, 2016 5:13 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

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A Tulsa Police SWAT sniper ended a multi-hour hostage situation and saved the life of a toddler with one trigger press at exactly the right moment in the dead of night.

A man who authorities allege forced his way inside his estranged wife’s east Tulsa home with a gun and took her 2-year-old daughter hostage was fatally shot by a police sniper early Tuesday.

Officers responded to a reported domestic-related call at a residence in the 4300 block of South 170th East Avenue shortly before midnight. Upon their arrival, a woman told them her estranged husband forced his way inside her home and grabbed her youngest child, a 2-year-old girl, while armed with a gun, police spokesman Leland Ashley said.

Police attempted to make contact with the man, who Ashley said “spoke very little English.” A Spanish-speaking officer made multiple requests for him to release the child, and the man eventually stepped onto the second-floor balcony while holding the girl with one hand and the gun with the other, Ashley said.

Officers indicated the man pointed the firearm at them and the girl during the standoff, which continued for several hours.

Shortly after 3 a.m., the man reportedly returned …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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